Is it possible to artificially create navigable rivers?
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Yet, this is very clearly on-topic: first, most such endeavors are done ...

@DVK-on-Ahch-To: or you build bridges; I think I prefer that - at least bridges are going somewhere.

@DVK-on-Ahch-To: The Soviet Union vanished thirty years ago - some people are still fighting old fights...rather than getting a grip on the real issues of today.

It reminds me of a story that I read a few years ago when a Japanese soldier appeared on one of there sparsely inhabited islands; he'd been hiding in the forest thinking that the war was still raging...!

@DVK-on-Ahch-To: march them up the hill, and then march them down again; that's useful in a real army, it strengthens their physical fitness and stamina; I'd question the utility in a educational facility.